Personally, I didn’t hear any booing of Whittingham. There had been a few moans minutes earlier when, most unlike him, Cardiff’s midfield man took a terrible free-kick, but certainly no out-and-out jeers.

What I did hear, when Whittingham was embarrassingly hauled off after just 38 minutes, was raucous cheering from pretty much every corner of the ground.

That was more to do with the fact that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was prepared to make such a bold substitution at that early stage of the game, coupled with the introduction of wing wonder Zaha, than anything particularly anti-Whittingham.

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What happens next with Whittingham is anybody’s guess.

Some are even suggesting he has kicked his last ball for Cardiff City, although I don’t buy that argument.

But frankly, if we’re going to talk Cardiff fans jeering, Solskjaer has a much bigger problem to concern himself with than their treatment of Whittingham.

Whereas I didn’t hear boos directed his way personally, I did hear them directed at the team twice in quick succession during the first half when the Bluebirds passed the ball back to David Marshall.

City, trailing by a goal and looking lopsided and lacking in creativity, were pressing near halfway. With 11 Norwich players behind the ball and no obvious openings or movement up front, City’s players patiently kept possession.

Just as Solskjaer is telling them to do.

The ball eventually went back to Marshall to start again. Cue booing from a section of the Cardiff City Stadium support.

Possession retained between goalkeeper and his defence, with no obvious forward ball on, once more it again went back to Marshall.

Cue much louder jeers from that section of the Cardiff City Stadium support.

It is important to emphasise we are talking here about a loud minority, rather than the vast majority, of City’s brilliant fan base.

But they were certainly audible enough to make their views perfectly known. And therein is the problem for Solskjaer.

City’s boss has made it clear from day one he wants his team to patiently pass the ball, rather than just lump it forward.

Adopting his mantra, says Solskjaer, means you make the opposition run around and apply pressure on them. Playing route one, he maintains, gifts possession back to the other team.

At Premier League level, that means extra pressure on your own defence and the inevitability of goals conceded.

If that means patiently going back to Marshall, so be it.

But whereas that’s okay for Arsenal, Barcelona or, dare I say it, even Swansea, many Cardiff fans are simply not accustomed to that type of slow, slow football.

They prefer an in-your-face, up-and-at-’em approach. Get the ball forward to the big man, as happened under Malky Mackay when Heidar Helguson was centre-forward and under Dave Jones, when Jay Bothroyd and Jon ‘The Beast’ Parkin were up top.

Solskjaer has that type of figure in Kenwyne Jones, a great header of the ball, but he is adamant it needs to be a last resort.

However, if some fans get on the backs of the players, the natural inclination will be to thump it upfield. Exactly what Solskjaer doesn’t want.

Ironically, one of the players most at ease with Solskjaer’s keep-the-ball mantra is Whittingham, for whom possession has always been nine-tenths of the law.

Another, of course, is Bellamy, accustomed to that style throughout the majority of his career.

My guess is that when Bellamy launched his weekend outburst, it was directed at those fans who jeered the passes back to Marshall as much as anything that happened to Whittingham.

The majority of City fans will back the style of play Solskjaer wants. Winning over the minority is a challenge.